When you Cheer on Twitch, your chat message will be marked with an animated emote — the more Bits you use, the more noticable ...

Bits allow you to express yourself on Twitch through animated icons, and can make your message stand out from the crowd (these are called Cheers). Depending on how many Bits you spend, your Cheer can ...

Twitch streamers have a new way to potentially monetize their broadcasts by using Bits in enabled Extensions, the social video service announced Monday. Bits are a form of virtual currency viewers can ...

Twitch emotes can be fun. Spamming custom emotes not available elsewhere is a time-honored tradition and just plain fun. If you're an aspiring creator, however, you might not be sure of exactly how to ...

Twitch has announced extensions, a new in-stream add-on that allows viewers to participate in mini-games and other engaging activities by spending bits. The new Twitch Extensions feature is ...

Twitch has decided that they're going to update and change a bit of the way they do monetization on their Bits program by adding a new feature to utilize them in "Extensions". The program, which will ...

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